Nepal
Charles Sobhraj murdered a string of Westerners traveling around Asia’s “Hippie Trail” in the 1970s.
Private jet rentals are up 900 percent with the middle class spending their life savings to flee, just as Nepal sees a deadly surge in cases as the chaos spills over the border.
‘As a climber, I’m offended, and as a physician, I’m horrified,’ Dr. Jeffrey Gertsch said. ‘It’s just a cattle call in a really dangerous place.’
The Champawat tigress turned the foothills of the Himalayas in Nepal into a bloodbath, amassing 436 human kills before she was brought down.
It has been three years since the earthquake that killed 9,000 people. Heritage-listed buildings were felled in an instant and Everest had its deadliest day ever.
Manisha Dhakal sketches her inspiring journey ‘from a shy boy to a confident woman,’ and now transgender activist and executive director of Nepal’s leading LGBTQ organization.
The practice of banishing menstruating women has been illegal for a decade, but no punishments or consequences were written into law until this week.